A daily dose of software engineering wisdom - inspiring, thought provoking, and sometimes just plain dangerous.

Tags: quotes
Inspiration: Various

Tim Berners-Lee:
"I chose HTML not to be a programming language because I wanted different programs to do different things with it: present it differently, extract tables of contents, index it, and so on."

Dave Clark, 1990, describing the new Internet community:
"We have no kings or presidents. We believe in rough consensus and running code."

Scott Berkun on 'negotiating' estimates:
"Programmers should be trusted. If your brain surgeon told you the operation you need takes five hours, would you pressure him to do it in three?"

Last published: Friday 28th October 2011

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